How to Make a Fabric Bookmark with Elastic and a Pocket
Learn how to make a fabric bookmark with this easy sewing pattern. This pattern comes with a pen pocket and elastic, which makes it more valuable.
Bookmarks can be found everywhere. You can find them made with paper, felt, fabric, and more. The ones we usually see are the simple fabric ones with a ribbon tail that makes it easy to pull out.
But sometimes, these bookmarks have the disadvantage of falling off while you carry the books around your house.
Solution- make a bookmark with elastic! This bookmark has an elastic attached to it so you can put it around the pages you would like to mark. You can easily carry the book around, without the fear of the bookmark falling off.
The sewing pattern comes with a pen pocket to store your pens and markers as well.
But don’t worry, it is not hard to make and takes only a few minutes. This tutorial will make sewing a bookmark easy for you. So, let’s get started!
If you would like to make a corner bookmark to mark the pages of your book, click on the picture below:
How to Make a Fabric Bookmark
Supplies Needed:
Scraps of fabric medium- weight cotton fabric for the bookmark body.
Scraps of medium-weight cotton fabric for the bookmark pocket.
Scraps of medium-weight fusible interfacing.
Fold- over- elastic- 10.5- inches ( can be more or less, depending on the size of your book. Mine was 8.5” long)
Sewing notions.
Front piece and back piece of the bookmark- 2.5” x 7”
Pocket pieces- 2.5” x 4.5” (cut 2).
Interfacing pieces- 2.5’ x 7” (cut 2)
Let’s make the pockets.
Place the pocket on the right side of the front piece, lining up the raw edges (the finished edge comes along the center).
Find the webstory for the post here, Fabric Bookmark Pattern with Elastic Band and Pocket
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Thank you for sharing , it is very useful and easy to make.
where can I find the fold over elastic that you use?
You can get it from Amazon.
Do you have to use fold over elastic or is any elastic okay?
You can use any elastic that is at least 0.75- inches thick.
Why use fold over elastic
If you add a ribbon hanging from the top, maybe you can mark your page with the ribbon and hold your book closed with the elastic???
How long is the elastic
The length of the elastic is mentioned in the sewing tutorial.